UAH's Atmospheric and Earth Science Department is devoted to providing high-quality education to and to contributing international-caliber research in the areas of remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry and air pollution, radiative transfer, microwave radiometry, severe storms, numerical modeling, and climate-change modeling and measurements. <br><br>Research opportunities abound at UAH due largely to the nation's concern about the environment. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) all fund atmospheric and earth science research at UAH.<br>Graduate students in the earth and atmospheric sciences come from a variety of disciplines: physics, chemistry, engineering, atmospheric, geophysical sciences, and applied mathematics. Opportunities are broad enough that each of these backgrounds is valuable for specific subfields within the earth and atmospheric sciences. However, students of earth and atmospheric sciences should have in common a sound background in the fundamentals of physics and applied mathematics and an interest in complex natural phenomena.<br>Students gain advanced knowledge of air quality, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, micrometeorology, climate dynamics, mesoscale meteorology, and numerical weather prediction. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research, teaching, and industry.